nina: thank you! this is gouache on board. impossible to get a solid background color, so the wash is a scumbled surface. with heave deposits of white, it reads like egg tempera. thanks for stopping by!

pam: well, this painting IS church for me. this has been a distressingly hard week in catholic news and its not the first time. im angry that the laity once again are left to explain the unexplainable. my church is going to have to be the forest and my books for now because i just cant ...

This is lovely and evokes a feeling of peace with the subtle green background, the palm frond, the sheep and the symbols of alpha and omega ... "I am the Alpha and Omega,the beginning and the end, the first and the last". Book of Revelation.